INFO: Link View Does Not Prepend FTP:// to URLs

ID: Q166661

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SUMMARY

When you invoke "View Links on WWW" from the Tools menu and type in a URL without an explicit scheme or protocol, Link View assumes that the URL should be accessed via HTTP://. For example, if you type in ftp.upenn.edu, Link View assumes that you want to View Links on http://ftp.upenn.edu, instead of ftp://ftp.upenn.edu.


MORE INFORMATION

This is by design. The "View Links on WWW" does not have all the richness of the Internet Explorer address field in its ability to take incomplete URLs and convert them into fully qualified URLs.


REFERENCES

For the latest Knowledge Base articles and other support information on Visual InterDev and Active Server Pages, see the following page on the Microsoft Technical Support site:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/vinterdev/

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Keywords          : kbusage kbDatabase kbVisDBTools kbVisID kbVisID100 kbVisID600 kbGrpASP 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,6.0
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: March 31, 1999